In the context of characterizing a completely arbitrary instrument or piece of world music, when trying to describe the number of notes or tones per octave we tend quickly to get grounded in notions ...

I practice scales a lot but I don't know when to move to another new scale, I mean when do you know you're finished with a scale? When you can visualise it in 12 keys and know the chords in each key, ...

I'm trying to figure out how I can mix major and minor pentatonic scales and was wondering if someone could explain the underlying theory concepts that would dictate under what chords/chord changes ...

As -to my knowledge- the largest repository of scales in the world, freeing Scala scale data files (.scl) up for use in modern browser applications is essential if ethnic musicians are to be provided ...

For example, in blues it's common to play a minor pentatonic scale over a major chord, and in a lot of rock music it is common to play the corresponding major/minor pentatonic scale over a major/minor ...

I always had this issue when naming certain notes in the music scale. For example, when I spell out certain notes such as Eb, some people have advised me to use D# instead of Eb stating that it is the ...

I've been playing guitar for many years, yet I have made the huge mistake of never really learning scales. I want to catch up, but I'm a bit lost, since there are so many scales in so many different ...

I found a similar question on SE already, but it still didn't adequately explain what I'm trying to figure out, so here goes:
What exactly is a scale, what are they for, and how does practising them ...

I'm a programmer by trade, and I have always felt that music was arbitrarily difficult. Please forgive my inexperience with musical notation. I had a little thought experiment with my wife today, and ...

I am having some confusion is respects to the formal definition of what the various modes are. I know that their defined in relation to their scale, however, I've come to realise this may not be best ...

I'm relatively new to learning the piano, though this has been a point of confusion since day one.
So, I started out with C Major and everything was going fine. I got the finger motions down, I was ...

I've noticed over the years that when pracitcing my scales (or just playing in very high registers) that it is noticeably more difficult to play at the very high or very low registers of the piano. I ...

I came up with a cool melody and just find out it is a diminished scale. The melody has the following notes: D D# F G# A.
Most scales containing these notes are diminished (I believe all of them are ...

I've been playing guitar for about a month. I know that learning scales is so important, but I just hate learning them. My question is what is the impact of not learning scales from the beginning in ...

I am trying to figure out how to know if a note in a scale is a sharp or a flat.
So my starting point/input are the intervals of any scale. E.g. here are the Minor pentatonic intervals
Interval: 1, ...

I'm trying to study some musical theory in my free time and it's starting to make sense but a few things are still bugging me. I've scanned the internet for hours but I can't find a satisfying answer. ...

Just as there are seven modes of the diatonic scale, I would expect five modes of the pentatonic scale.
Have these been classified?
Here they are, in the form of {semitone interval gaps} (Notes for ...